Specific auditory and visual memory training (15 minute sessions for 25 days) resulted in significant improvements in 42 kindergarteners' ability to retain stimuli. (CL)

Reports experiments on the symbolic distance effect and related phenomena with six- and nine-year-old children. The effect was obtained for lexical and pictorial input; pictures produced faster responses than words; congruity effects occurred in the pictorial condition. Asymmetry in subjects' capacity to verify statements of relation was found,…

Describes a four-phase plan of stimulus control to initiate voice transcription instruction and to effect gradual withdrawal from the use of printed dictation. (SK)

Reports the measurement of response latencies and the recording of eye movements in a task in which children of approximately five-and-a-half years counted one to eight dots presented in different configurations. (Author/RH)

Results of three experiments suggest that groups of schizophrenic, younger normal, and older normal children used a serial information-processing strategy while performing on a partial report version of a span of apprehension task. Impairment of schizophrenic children on the partial report versions seemed to reflect inefficiencies in the…

Compares comprehension monitoring skills of younger (five- to six-year-old) and older (eight- to nine-year-old) children. Subjects examined ambiguous and incomplete pictorial instructions for making two models and were asked whether they needed additional information to make the models. (RH)

A probe-type serial memory task was used to determine whether 3-dimensional objects would produce better recall than colored pictures of the same objects in elementary school students with low IQ's. (ST)

Seven experiments study the decrease in response to repeated visual stimulation in children's first four years. (DR)

Experiment demonstrates that the reinforcing efficacy of visual feedback is related to its degree of redundancy. (WY)

A dimmer light condition was found to affect the respiration rate of 10 newborns in an experiment investigating the effects of sound and light intensity. (WY)

Discusses use of films of realistic situations, when actual situations are not available for student to experience. Film is used as a stimulus. Trainee response and feedback are analyzed. Applicability and feasibility of film stimulus are discussed. (RB)

Accentuated conditions, during which animated motion pictures of objects blended into their customary printed words, was found more effective than the conventional look-say presentation of objects and words in teaching retarded persons to read. (KW)